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Sunday, April 7, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF COMICS CURIOSITIES #32: "THE AMAZONS OF NESBO" (FEATURE COMICS #37, 1940)




So this standard "jungle hero meets city ruled by women" sports not one but three suspicious names:


The culture itself is named NESBO...


The queen is named SOPHO (like "Sappho")...


And there's a minor character named LEBA.


Whoever was writing under the Quality Comics "house name" John Charles apparently had a bee up his bonnet-- and it wasn't a drone...